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Robert (Butch) Day Galactic Ambassador
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orzel-w Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:34 pm Post subject: |
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Although somewhat misleading in its whimsy. The bending of light by mass, depicted like this...
...is more properly like this...
_________________ ...or not...
WayneO
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:46 pm Post subject: |
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Right, Wayne. In the first picture, we see the light headed straight for the sun, and it seems to deliberately detour around it, after which it turns back to its original path.
In the second picture we see that the light -- which would have simply missed the sun -- is pulled in towards it as it passes the gravity well, then it heads straight away in a new direction after the lateral pull of gravity diminishes. _________________ ____________
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Robert (Butch) Day Galactic Ambassador
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 4:49 am Post subject: |
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Time Lord physics, perhaps? _________________ Common Sense ISN'T Common |
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Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2015 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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Robert (Butch) Day wrote: | Time Lord physics, perhaps? |
Wait . . . Einstein was a Time Lord? Hey, yeah! That explains a lot! _________________ ____________
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